Weather ReportCurrently 59 Degrees in Cleveland at Noon.
55 Degrees at gametime with a 10% chance of precipitation and a 10-15 MPH wind heading SE (not sure where that relates to the ballpark) Anyway, it will be partly cloudy and not the greatest of ballgame weather.

Doug's Keys to the Game---The key to tonight's game will be CC Sabathia coming off of a few lackluster starts. He got roughed up by Oakland again last outing and I think it's really important that he bounce back strong. Hopefully he can give us 7 and 3 or less earned runs.
---Victor Martinez is 11/25 against Carlos Not Gold but Silva with 3 HR and 11 RBI.
---Grady Sizemore is 17-33 against Carlos Not Gold but Silva with 2 HR and 5 RBI
---CC Sabathia is third in the league in K/BB ratio at 5.80. He is behind Ted Lilly at 6 and.....PAUL BYRD!!!! AT 7.87

Tripod, I don't know if you'll be checkin the thread or not but I'm gonna need you to make the game threads tomorrow and Friday. I'm moving home tomorrow at about 1 and it's a pretty long drive so I won't be able to make the previews. Friday ill be getting situated so that won't work either. Besides, yours are better than mine (I'm still trying to figure out the pictures of the starting pitchers)

what is the outlook for this game? Is the rain going to break? I dont have the blessing of local weather forecasts.

Coming from a Wolverine, we're the football equivalent of a formerly abused wife of a meth addict who just remarried the safe nice guy. We're just glad we have someone who's aware that it's a rivalry and that tackling on defense is integral. Baby steps.

Man, the Indians are three blown late leads on that West Coast trip from really being on a role. Could have very well gone 7-3 or 6-4 on that trip and won every series......oh well. Starting to look like The Jake homefield cooking is back. Would be nice to see.

We need to nail this one down. Overall a pretty solid effort. That 10 game wrap around road trip was just brutal. Like I said Sunday - I would have been thrilled with 5-5. At the end of the day - if we can hang on - we're back to 9 games over .500 with 5 games left on this home stand. Not too bad.

If I remember the play correctly, the bases were loaded and it was a sac fly to right. While watching it on TV I thought Ford might have a play at the plate. I think we must have some sort of set up were Hafner is supposed to get in that run down to insure the scoring of the run.